Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful ...

When Keith Hodgson first arrived at Stanford University in the fall of 1973, he did not know much about synchrotron radiation ...

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Now, leveraging high-energy X-rays at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, researchers have identified an ...

Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury – a form so harmful that just a few ...

Sustainability, health and animal welfare concerns drive consumers to plant-based meat alternatives, but their mouthfeel is ...

The first 3D images of a whole human thymus have been created using a specialized X-ray technique by researchers from UCL and the Francis Crick Institute.

A Wicklow academic is one of only two Ireland-based recipients to be awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant.

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Stations within the synchrotron called beamlines allowed Houry ... “You put it on that beam line and hit it with x-rays. And then when you hit on the x-rays, there’s a diffraction pattern.